Thunderbird is a stand-alone mail/news client based on the Mozilla codebase. It uses the Gecko rendering engine to enable it to display and compose HTML emails.
This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform.
Download (HTTP): http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/24.3.0/source/thunderbird-24.3.0.source.tar.bz2
Download (FTP): ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/24.3.0/source/thunderbird-24.3.0.source.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 3093e14a3635123c0c70c8c11c27c7b1
Download size: 134 MB
Estimated disk space required: 4.2 GB (53 MB installed)
Estimated build time: 52 SBU
alsa-lib-1.0.27.2, GTK+-2.24.22, Zip-3.0 and UnZip-6.0
libevent-2.0.21, libvpx-1.3.0, NSPR-4.10.3, NSS-3.15.4, SQLite-3.8.3.1 and yasm-1.2.0
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
If you don't install recommended dependencies, then internal copies of those packages will be used. They might be tested to work, but they can be out of date or contain security holes.
cURL-7.35.0, Cyrus SASL-2.1.26, dbus-glib-0.102, Doxygen-1.8.6, gst-plugins-good-0.10.31 and gst-ffmpeg-0.10.13, Hunspell, libnotify-0.7.6, startup-notification-0.12, Wget-1.15 and Wireless Tools-29
User Notes: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Thunderbird
The configuration of Thunderbird
is accomplished by creating a mozconfig file containing the desired
configuration options. A default mozconfig is created below. To see the entire
list of available configuration options (and a brief description of
each), issue ./configure
--help. Create the file with the following command:
cat > mozconfig << "EOF" # If you have a multicore machine you can speed up the build by running # several jobs at once by uncommenting the following line and setting the # value to number of CPU cores: #mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS="-j4" # If you have installed DBus-Glib comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-dbus # If you have installed wireless-tools comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-necko-wifi # If you have installed libnotify comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-libnotify # GStreamer is necessary for H.264 video playback in HTML5 Video Player; # to be enabled, also remember to set "media.gstreamer.enabled" to "true" # in about:config. If you have installed GStreamer comment out this line: ac_add_options --disable-gstreamer # Uncomment these lines if you have installed optional dependencies: #ac_add_options --enable-system-hunspell #ac_add_options --enable-startup-notification # Uncomment this line if you compiled Cairo with --enable-tee switch and want # to use it instead of the bundled one: #ac_add_options --enable-system-cairo # If you have not installed Yasm then uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --disable-webm # If you want to compile the Mozilla Calendar, uncomment this line: #ac_add_options --enable-calendar # Comment out following options if you have not installed # recommended dependencies: ac_add_options --enable-system-sqlite ac_add_options --with-system-libevent ac_add_options --with-system-libvpx ac_add_options --with-system-nspr ac_add_options --with-system-nss # It is recommended not to touch anything below this line ac_add_options --prefix=/usr ac_add_options --disable-crashreporter ac_add_options --disable-installer ac_add_options --disable-updater ac_add_options --disable-debug ac_add_options --disable-tests ac_add_options --enable-optimize ac_add_options --enable-strip ac_add_options --enable-install-strip ac_add_options --enable-gio ac_add_options --enable-official-branding ac_add_options --enable-safe-browsing ac_add_options --enable-url-classifier ac_add_options --enable-system-ffi ac_add_options --enable-system-pixman ac_add_options --with-pthreads ac_add_options --with-system-bz2 ac_add_options --with-system-jpeg ac_add_options --with-system-png ac_add_options --with-system-zlib mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/thunderbuild EOF
Compile Thunderbird by issuing the following commands:
If you are compiling Thunderbird
in chroot, prepend SHELL=/bin/bash to
the first make command below.
make -f client.mk && make -C thunderbuild/mail/installer
This package does not come with a test suite.
Install Thunderbird by running the
following commands as the root
user:
mkdir -pv /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.3.0 &&
tar -xvf thunderbuild/mozilla/dist/thunderbird-24.3.0.en-US.linux-$(uname -m).tar.bz2 \
-C /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.3.0 --strip-components=1 &&
ln -sfv ../lib/thunderbird-24.3.0/thunderbird /usr/bin
The above instructions just install the parts you need to run
Thunderbird. Alternatively, if you
want to install the full Thunderbird development environment, run the
following command as the root user:
make -C thunderbuild install
make -f client.mk:
Mozilla products are packaged to allow the use of a configuration
file which can be used to pass the configuration settings to the
configure command.
make uses the
client.mk file to get initial
configuration and setup parameters.
make -C
thunderbuild/mail/installer: this runs make in the
thunderbuild/mail/installer folder.
This gathers together all the parts of Thunderbird and compresses them into a
tarball.
tar -xfv thunderbuild/mozilla/dist
...: This untars Thunderbird, the -C option uncompresses the files in /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.3.0. The --strip-components=1 option removes the leading
'thunderbird' directory from the filenames, allowing us to untar it
into a versioned directory.
If your Window or Desktop Manager does not allow you to configure a default browser, you can add a configuration parameter to Thunderbird so that a browser will start when when you click on an Internet/intranet/local URL. The procedure to check or modify any of the configuration parameters is quite simple and the instructions here can be used to view or modify any of the parameters.
First, open the configuration dialog by opening the “Edit” drop-down menu. Choose “Preferences” and then click on the “Advanced” icon on the top menu bar. Choose the “General” tab and click on the “Config Editor” button. This will display a list of the configuration preferences and information related to each one. You can use the “Filter:” bar to enter search criteria and narrow down the listed items. Changing a preference can be done using two methods. One, if the preference has a boolean value (True/False), simply double-click on the preference to toggle the value and two, for other preferences simply right-click on the desired line, choose “Modify” from the menu and change the value. Creating new preference items is accomplished in the same way, except choose “New” from the menu and provide the desired data into the fields when prompted.
The configuration preference item you need to check so that
Thunderbird uses a specified
browser is the network.protocol-handler.app.http
which should be set to the path of the desired browser, e.g.
/usr/bin/firefox.
![[Tip]](../images/tip.png)
There is a multitude of configuration parameters you can tweak to customize Thunderbird. A very extensive, but not so up-to-date list of these parameters can be found at http://preferential.mozdev.org/preferences.html.
If you use a desktop environment like GNOME or KDE you may wish to create a thunderbird.desktop file so that Thunderbird appears in the panel's menus. If
you didn't enable startup-notification in your mozconfig then
change the StartupNotify line to false. Run the following
commands as the root user:
mkdir -pv /usr/share/applications &&
mkdir -pv /usr/share/pixmaps &&
cat > /usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop << "EOF" &&
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Thunderbird Mail
Comment=Send and receive mail with Thunderbird
GenericName=Mail Client
Exec=thunderbird %u
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Icon=thunderbird
Categories=Application;Network;Email;
MimeType=application/xhtml+xml;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;x-scheme-handler/mailto;
StartupNotify=true
EOF
ln -sfv /usr/lib/thunderbird-24.3.0/chrome/icons/default/default256.png \
/usr/share/pixmaps/thunderbird.png
Last updated on 2014-02-25 03:54:44 -0800